(Post has since disappeared! It was a news article about a guy who asks a police officer for a ride, then gets arrested for possession of cocaine. When he approaches the squad car asks the officer for a ride, the officer asks if he is in possession of a controlled substance. He answers "No," pauses, then answers "Yes." He is arrested for possession of cocaine. Apparently, the clown had forgotten he had a baggie of coke in his pocket.)

A down on his luck grandfather has been arrested after turning to crime and trying to rob a woman in her exclusive Californian gated community home.

Wearing a distinctive wig to impersonate a police officer, Ronald Snyder, 75, was arrested on Sunday for forcing his way into the Hidden Hills home armed with a silenced gun.

Charged with home invasion and impersonating a law enforcement officer, Snyder is being held on $1 million bail after the victim’s son managed to phone 911 and alert the police after hearing his mother’s screams downstairs.

Police said that Snyder was able to gain entry into the gated community because he still held security cards having lived there in the past.

Deputies from Lost Hills Sheriff’s Station rushed to 24600 block of Long Valley Road in Hidden Hills to find a woman crouched in the doorway crying and Snyder standing over her.

Snyder then allegedly attempted to draw his handgun on the deputies who rushed toward him and pushed him to the floor and then cuffed him.

The traumatized victim told investigators that Snyder had arrived at her door and identified himself as a member of the Sheriff’s Department.